found at http://www.upress.virginia.edu/epub/pyatt/chap01.html while looking for some thing else Patti ********************************* ANNIE BLACKWELL THORNE COLLECTION, #4521, 1769-1965 Correspondence, legal and financial materials, and genealogical papers of the Alston, Harriss, Kearny, Thorne, and related families, primarily of Warren and Halifax Counties, North Carolina. Financial materials contain information documenting transactions relating to the buying and selling of slaves (1786- 1839). CARY WHITAKER PAPERS, #767, 1798-1930 The collection contains a diary, notebook, and papers of Whitaker, a student at the University of North Carolina, 1850- 1852, Confederate officer, and lawyer of Halifax County, North Carolina. The notebook includes Whitaker's model statements for indictments or convictions for crimes, most involving slaves or free blacks (1859). Microfilm available. MATTHEW CARY WHITAKER, #768, 1728-1870 Family correspondence, bills, receipts, accounts, and business papers related primarily to planting, of Whitaker, physician and planter of Halifax County, North Carolina. Included are slave bills of sale (1817,1835) and accounts concerning the hiring out of slaves (1822, 1841). WILLIAM HENRY WILLS PAPERS, #792, 1712-1921 Family, religious, plantation, and business papers of Wills family members in Halifax County, North Carolina, where Wills was a general merchant, Methodist Protestant minister, and cotton planter, and of relatives in Washington and Edgecombe Counties, North Carolina. Correspondence discusses race relations within the Methodist Protestant and Methodist Episcopal churches (1840- 1890; slaves in Florida (1835-1847); an attempt to purchase a slave girl in order to keep her with her family (1839); and justifications of slavery (1861-65). WILLIAM RUFFIN SMITH PAPERS, #678, 1772-1959 Chiefly business papers of the Smith family of Halifax County, North Carolina, with estate papers relating to the Spruill and other connected families. The collection contains a list of slave dates of birth (1775-1849); a certificate of marriage for free blacks Richard Smith and Tracey Laurence (1868); and an undated brief essay by Claiborne Smith entitled "The Post Emancipation Negro." PETER EVANS SMITH PAPERS, #677, 1738-1944 Personal and business papers of Smith of Halifax County, North Carolina, and of his relatives. The collection documents slaves, tenant farmers, and laborers. Antebellum correspondence mention runaway slaves, the hiring of slaves (1822-1849), and information on the skills of particular slaves. The collection also contains slave lists, slave bills of sale, accounts for the hire of slaves, slave medical bills, and deeds of gift transferring ownership of slaves (1739-1865); accounts for items purchased for slaves (1865); labor contracts for freedmen (1866-1868); account books with information on slave hiring (1823-1831); and slave lists (1858-1866). Included is a document presumably recording payment to a female slave "healer" for her medical services (1830) and two photographs of African Americans in Edwards Ferry, 1888, and at the Jamestown Exposition. SALLY LONG JARMAN COLLECTION, #4005, 1826-1945 Genealogical data and ancestral papers gathered by Jarman of Halifax County, North Carolina, pertaining to the Mason, Gray, Long, Amis, and related North Carolina families. Included are a Confederate Army order to Nathaniel Mason to assemble his militia company in preparation for a rumored slave insurrection (1831) and a letter to Thomas W. Mason from his overseer concerning the management of Mason's plantation (1862). F. M. FORSTER (COLLECTOR), #261, 1741-1783 A collection of items related to North Carolina, including a slave bill of sale from Halifax County (1766). MICHAEL FERRALL PAPERS, #3880, 1818-1960 This collection contains a group of papers relating to the mobilization and service of the Halifax County, North Carolina, militia during the Nat Turner rebellion (1831-1832).